Timeline for Is "The future has never begun yet" gramatically correct?
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| Mar 25, 2019 at 12:35 | comment | added | Lambie | "never yet" together is up to this point in time: it's adverbial. "X has never begun yet" with never and yet around the verb is not. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 12:30 | comment | added | Mixolydian | I agree it’s not grammatical, but maybe I couldn’t explain why very well. Maybe it’s because “begin” is a one-time action? That would explain why “never yet” seems to work with “begun on time” or “won”- things that can happen repeatedly. | |
| Mar 25, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | Lambie | But it does not make grammatical sense at all. "The x has never begun yet" is agrammatical. Never yet has he won a race. He has never yet won a race. Both those are fine. But not: He has never won yet a race. Creating other sentences makes that obvious....One can only tell this fact by creating other sentences with the same pattern... | |
| Mar 24, 2019 at 22:08 | history | edited | Mixolydian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 24, 2019 at 19:23 | history | answered | Mixolydian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |